Sunday, July 31, 2011

DAGIM advertises a non-kosher recipe in the Newspaper. It's a well known fact that consumers can't check for infestation. It requires training & experience, which even most mashgichim are not properly trained.

By advertising a recipe with fresh herbs that requires checking from infestation is iresponsible & a "mich'shoil".

ALERT: You need to be expert to check for the anisakis in many of the wild fish listed in their ad, who's doing the checking or are they dissing Rav Eliyashev & Rav Wosner, Shlita?. Tilapia is a clean fish, but it must have proper simonim, especially from China.

Friday, July 29, 2011

The beef industry is facing a supply crisis as liquidation of our nation’s cow herd has now reached a critical stage. American ranchers have been forced to cull their herds to the point that it will have implications for years to come and may speed consolidation throughout every industry sector.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Blueberries Organic or from small farms are infestedCorn on the cob &amp;strawberries are all infested.
Corn OnThe Cob, all kernels must be removed & rinsed.
Strawberries must be peeled completly or washed well & pureed to a liquid.Cabbage is muchzuk in insects.Red cabbage has less but it does have.Iceberg Lettuce is muchzuk.

Corn on the COB is infested. Why are the Lakewood kosher stores selling it without notifying the customers that you must remove & rinse the kernels from the cob? Profit!

Strawberries must be peeled as they can't be cleaned from the insects. Why are the Lakewood kosher stores selling it without notifying the customers that you must peel the entire berry prior to eating.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Is publicizing recipes including that have serious kashrus concerns. It's a well known fact that fresh herbs are infested & one who is not an experienced expert may not use it. Most of their recipes use fresh herbs R"L

Kashrus alert:
Re: Frozen Spinach & infestation. The only time spinach is at a low level of infestation is when the weather is cool & dry. That is usually in late March (in NJ). After that, it's just too late in the season. This year the NJ Spinach was picked the for the kosher market in May/June. The question is just how badly infested was the product.

The infested water is recirculated onto the product.From a practical point of view, it's not a clean product that one should consider using it, regardless of the name on the package.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

The MATZAV site http://matzav.com/matzav-mazon-awesome-avocado
Is publicizing recipes including from kosher street that have serious kashrus concerns. It's a well known fact that fresh herbs are infested & one who is not an experienced expert may not use it. Most of their recipes use fresh herbs R"L. They also utilize virgin olive oil, the University of California Davis Institute tested most of the virgin & cold press olive oils and they were adulterated with other cheaper oils.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

NEW YORK Gotham Greens, which operates a hydroponic greenhouse facility on the rooftop of an industrial building in Brooklyn, announced that it has started harvesting and delivering pesticide-free vegetables and herbs to New York food retailers, including Whole Foods Market, FreshDirect and D'Agostino's.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Matzav.com has received an advisory from the Va’ad HaKashrus of the Five Towns and Far Rockaway, which is guided by Rav Yosef Eisen, claims to be an expert in insect infestation. The Vaad advises that there is a report of very high infestation in fresh red cabbage. Small white insects can only be detected if the cabbage is opened on top of a light box. This is extremely tedious and impractical.

The following sources are acceptable to be used: Bodek Cabbage, Postiv Cabbage, Dole Red Cabbage with the Star-K, and Dole Red Cabbage with a KAJ sticker.

Red cabbage from whole heads may not be used until the end of August. END of articleNote: The bugs don't know when August ends, nor can they read "insect-free"
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It has been proven time and again that the Shatnez Laboratory in Monsey under the direction of R' Y. Kreitman & under a hashgocha of a Bais din is NOT to be relied upon. Also the Shatnez lab(s) in Lakewood directed by Kreitman under the Hashgocha of a Bais Din is NOT to be relied upon. Only the ones affiliated with the International Association of professional Shatnez tester an International Organization are to be relied upon.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

If you are making a Simcha (wedding, etc) in Lakewood, by some of the caterers you may need your own mashgiach by all of the cooking etc. You must instruct the mashgiach what his job is, that he is working for you the Baal simcha.

Some have freezer stock, especially for the shmorg which you'll never know what it is.

You must make sure it's in the contract you sign with the caterer, that you will a mashgiach of your own choice & that everthing will be prepared fresh under the direction of the mashgiach.

Update:We spoke to Skver Hashgocha re: Solomon/Fishels, they are trying to get a waiver from the USDA.Re: Alle, We wrote to the Rav Hamachshir 3 times & did not receive ANY response.

We may not leave the animal or it's lungs by the Goy prior to it being inspected by the Bodik chutz. Even "bi'dieved it's not permitted, if that is the normal standard way it's considered a "mai'zid".

שולחן ערוך יורה דעה סימן ל"ט סעיף י"ז, ש"ך מ"ג-

Genearlly in the slaughter houses the USDA inspects the lung before the bodek chutz, which is "ossur". Check with your Rav Hamachshir to ascertain what is the heter? and yet more why aren't the kosher consumers made aware of this fact.

We think Rinse N Chill may have to be instuted in a more controlled method.

Rav Eliyashev recently told Reb Yudel Shain "one may not rely on that certain American Rav's HETEIRIM including the heter of the operated cows that they aren't a treifah". Rav Eliyashev said further the cows are to be considered a treifah & anyone farm that doesn't remove them from the herd, you may not use the milk as it's "cholov Treifah". Rav Eliyashev would like to tell this personally to the "OU" and their Poiskim.Rav Eliyashev said the reason he addresses it as "heteirim' not a psak is because that Rav's Heteirim are based on flawed facts & flawed Halacha.

Friday, July 08, 2011

When the cameras were installed by the Weinstein shul, they were in touch with Rav Eliyashev, shlita & the psak was very straight forward "all of the different types are OSSUR, even if the recording is off".

Other shuls & Yeshivas in Lakewood keep theirs on during shabbos. Others may want to daven & learn in other places.

Note: Some claim that all of their cameras are off, when actually only a few are off. while most of the other ones are on.

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